I am obliged to you Dear Sir for the various communications in y^r favor of the 18^th past. I am now confirmed in what I always thought the picture at Dunmore Lodgings was not vandycks: as you may see by my mark of doubt? p.51.¹

has any one the inscriptions in Douglas church, or could you procure them.²

I thank you for y^r intentions ab^t Urqhart: but I have his strange work:³ But Moyse’s memoirs would be of much use.

I have a M.S. of M^r Schaws relating to Elgin but it consists of only pages. I shall print it with a plate.⁴

I think M^r Donaldson is the fittest man to print y^r Inveraray friends tract: I like M^r Donaldsons spirit; though not his puffing me. It would sell.

I am glad to hear M^r Low goes on so well. it shall be my business to get his work printed in a handsome way.

When in town last winter the admiralty permitted me to correct my map by M^r Mackenzie’s charts.

Be so good as to forward the inclosed. if D^r Ramsay is gone to Taymouth pray fill the direction & send it by post.

I am Dear Sir
Y^r most obed^t Serv^t

Tho. Pennant

July 9^th 1773

Not a syllable about M^r Govan’s parcel.

^FreeRNBootle

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Editorial notes

1. See Pennant, Tour in Scotland 1769 (Chester: 1771), p.51. In subsequent editions Pennant credits the painting to Daniel Mytens: see Tour in Scotland 1769, 3rd edn. (Warrington: 1774), p.66.
2. See the description of the church and engraving of the earl of Douglas's tomb in Pennant, Tour in Scotland 1772 Part I (Chester: 1774), Plate XI, pp.134-35.
3. Probably a reference to Thomas Urquhart's Ekskubalauron, alternatively referred to by part of its subtitle: A Vindication of the Scots Nation (London: 1652). The work includes an account of the life of 'The Admirable' James Crichton, and is cited as a source in Pennant's account of him: see Tour in Scotland 1769, 3rd edn. (Warrington: 1774), Appendix III., p.314.
4. Pennant is probably referring to part of the work later published as The history of the province of Moray (Edinburgh; London: 1775). Pennant presented a manuscript by Shaw 'of the Ecclesiastical antiquities of Murray' to the Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL/MS/32): see his covering letter addressed to Daines Barrington, dated March 4^th 1773. Shaw contributed an account 'Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray' to Pennant's Tour in Scotland 1769: see 3rd edn. (Warrington: 1769), Appendix II., pp.287-312.